Nuts are actually the fruits of various trees such as hazelnuts being the fruit of hazel trees. But fruit in the Wars is defined as being such as apples, lemons, oranges and similar. Uncle Manfred is 143 years old and very pedantic and traditionalist. But the talk of nuts has created the Nut Wars in April which will let you throw nuts to your heart's content.

Have some guavas as a parting shot!

Fruit Wars now over for another year. Thank you all very much for coming.

'The best Government is that which governs least, if at all' - Henry David Thoreau.

Ultra special Fruit Wars beginning next Saturday (25th). Ultra special because that date is Doctor Ledin's 65th birthday. Auntie Brin is coming over specially from America. And you can bet the good Doctor has something lined up for y'all.

Be there with your fruits and remember the rules!

'The best Government is that which governs least, if at all' - Henry David Thoreau.

I'm going to have to find out what these odd fruits are.I can't decide whether to launch them or eat them. That probably means that I should be thinking about dinner.Meanwhile . . .

*carefully lines up a long row of mangoes and pokes them full of cloves*

I'm not going to say what I'm planning to do with them because they aren't finished yet. My package of durians is essential to finish this weapon, and they're lost in the mail for some reason . . . *sigh*

Wha . . . what?? I didn't see anything about that in the rules.Besides, the cloves are mostly a guide to help with assembly.

But - beware! My durians have finally arrived, slightly flattened in transit, but mostly okay.*carefully rolls the best-looking, roundest durians over the row of be-clovened mangoes until the mangoes are evenly impaled on the durians' spines* *attaches a Buddha Hand fruit to each fruit assembly to control them**nudges them into motion and then jumps back*

*waits to see what will happen, since Buddha hand fruits can be unpredictable*

I thought that a fruit was the seed-bearing part of the plant, and a vegetable was anything else (leaves, stem, roots, etc.) Don't get me started on the various types of fruit, though. (Berries? Drupes? Droopy berries? HellifIknow!) Besides, I could be wrong about everything. Ya never know.

I appreciate the oranges! I've been craving citrus lately, probably thanks to this blasted winter cold . . . *Launches a series of colored designer melons, organized according to the rainbow* They will probably splat, but it should be pretty!